I'm biased[0], but no there are hundreds of news organizations using WordPress for publishing. It's the industry standard. [0] https://newspack.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

To me, it seems like their newsletter plugin is closely tied with their local news publication product of the same name. Of interest, Newspack is a project of WordPress.com and the Google News Initiative. So one of the cool features of the Newspack newsletter plugin is the ability to easily add google ads into their newsletters. Source: about 2 years ago

If you want uncensored.. https://gab.ai. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

I don't understand how you can stop spam yet not have the structures in place to censor forbidden views or opinions. Without admin moderation you get 50 million flavours of porn (like old Usenet servers) some of which will be illegal porn, a massive slice of QAnon and conspiracy (like Odyssee and gab.ai), information and propaganda useful to terrorists (like the old totse.com) and dark web drug markets. Source: over 2 years ago

This already exists in the "Dissenter browser" made by the folks over at gab.ai. This could work as a third party extension, but direct support from Brave would instantly draw controversy as it's perceived that the only reason Dissenter exists is to support toxic radical right wingers. Source: over 2 years ago

I feel that there is still space for a platform for content creators which is away from any restrictions. I was talking to a lawyer friend of mine about drafting a user agreement which makes it impossible for anyone to sue any content creator or the platform, or for any government or group to force removal of content. but in the end we figured that we would need a back to back agreement with our service... Source: about 3 years ago